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enSmall Display Bedevils Some Apple Watch Appshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/537076/small-display-bedevils-some-apple-watch-apps/
<p>The 3,500 apps available for the Apple Watch show the device’s promise and pitfalls.</p><p>Nobody needs an Apple Watch, or any kind of smart watch, really; we haven’t quite figured out what to do with these things yet, beyond activity tracking and replicating the alerts you already get on your smartphone. But that isn’t stopping app makers from trying to figure out more things to do with wrist-worn gadgets. There are more than 3,500 apps available for the Apple Watch, which started selling this month from Apple’s website (though if you order now, you probably won’t get one until June).</p>Thu, 30 Apr 2015 04:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman537076 at http://www.technologyreview.comGadgets Are Getting Better at Fooling Your Sense of Touchhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/535121/gadgets-are-getting-better-at-fooling-your-sense-of-touch/
<p>Touch feedback that’s more nuanced than a simple buzz could make virtual reality more real and cars safer.</p><p>The offices of <a href="http://www.immersion.com/" target="0">Immersion</a> in San Jose, California, may be the touchy-feeliest place I’ve ever been. The walls of one conference room are lined with tablets, smartphones, smart watches, and other gadgets that all have the ability to stimulate your sense of touch.</p>Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:20:00 +0000juniper.friedman535121 at http://www.technologyreview.comCES 2015: Wearables Everywherehttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/533916/ces-2015-wearables-everywhere/
<p>At the annual gadget show, wearable-device makers are moving beyond activity-tracking wristbands.</p><p>The <a href="http://www.cesweb.org" target="0">International Consumer Electronics Show</a>, held in Las Vegas this week, is a vast celebration of every imaginable gadget and gizmo, from self-cleaning smartphone screens to self-driving cars. And while the event is not always a reliable guide (think 3-D TVs), it does reveal the industry’s best guess of what consumers might want next.</p>Mon, 05 Jan 2015 20:15:00 +0000Kyanna.Sutton533916 at http://www.technologyreview.comVoice Recognition for the Internet of Thingshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/531936/voice-recognition-for-the-internet-of-things/
<p>With natural-language processing aided by crowdsourced data, Wit.ai aims to make smartphones, wearables, and drones heed your call.</p><p>It’s not unusual to find yourself talking to an uncoöperative appliance or gadget. Soon, though, it could soon be more common for those devices to actually pay attention.</p>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman531936 at http://www.technologyreview.comUsing Your Ear to Track Your Hearthttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/529571/using-your-ear-to-track-your-heart/
<p>Although smart watches and fitness bands are proliferating on wrists, there could be an even better spot on the body for wearable tech.</p><p>If you’re going to choose a place on the body to measure physical signals, Steven LeBoeuf says two places are far and away the best: the ear or the rear.</p>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 04:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman529571 at http://www.technologyreview.comThe Internet of Youhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/527386/the-internet-of-you/
<p>As wearable devices get better-looking and more powerful, we’ll trust them to monitor and control more of our lives.</p><p>The Internet of things typically conjures images of “smart” light bulbs and automatic door locks. Yet with an ever larger number of smart watches, activity trackers, and head-worn computers hitting the market, we’re becoming part of the Internet of things, too.</p>Tue, 20 May 2014 04:00:00 +0000Kyanna.Sutton527386 at http://www.technologyreview.comJawbone’s Vision: Activity Tracking Now, Remote Control Tomorrowhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/526341/jawbones-vision-activity-tracking-now-remote-control-tomorrow/
<p>Fitness bands like the Jawbone Up are in an unusual and enviable position in the electronics business: people rarely take them off.</p><p>If you wear a Jawbone Up24 around town, people might ask what it is. The wristband looks like a piece of futuristic jewelry, skinned in a rubbery plastic with a wavy pattern. Even in matte black, the most unexciting of available colors, it stands out.</p>Fri, 16 May 2014 04:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman526341 at http://www.technologyreview.comThis Fitness Wristband Wants to Play Doctorhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/524376/this-fitness-wristband-wants-to-play-doctor/
<p>Startup Quanttus is developing a device that monitors heart rate, respiration, and blood pressure from your wrist.</p><p>Plenty of fitness tracking gadgets and related apps can tell you how many steps you’ve taken today or roughly how many calories you’ve burned. Getting deeper insights, such as how your body is recovering from yesterday’s workout, is much trickier.</p>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:15:28 +0000juniper.friedman524376 at http://www.technologyreview.comA Stand-Alone Smart Watch That Falls Downhttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/522826/a-stand-alone-smart-watch-that-falls-down/
<p>Omate’s TrueSmart watch is an intriguing idea, but has many problems.</p><p>When I first spotted the <a href="http://www.omate.com/" target="_blank">Omate TrueSmart</a>—a smart watch that doesn’t need to connect to a smartphone—I was, to put it politely, skeptical. With its own wireless data capabilities, a fully functional Android operating system, 1.5-inch touch screen, GPS, and dual-core processor, the device is basically a tiny smartphone with a wrist strap. I figured it would be overloaded and unusable, as well as overly expensive, since it requires its own data plan to take advantage of all its functions.</p>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 05:00:00 +0000juniper.friedman522826 at http://www.technologyreview.comPebble Sets Sights on Fitness Trackers with New App-Making Toolshttp://www.technologyreview.com/news/521026/pebble-sets-sights-on-fitness-trackers-with-new-app-making-tools/
<p>Pebble unveils developer tools that allow for motion- and gesture-tracking apps for its smart watch.</p><p>Smart watch maker <a href="http://www.getpebble.com" target="_blank">Pebble</a> unveiled updates on Wednesday to the software tools that developers can use to build apps for its wrist-worn device. The tools extend the watch’s capabilities and may put it in more direct competition with popular fitness-tracking devices like the Jawbone Up and the Nike Fuelband.</p>Wed, 06 Nov 2013 18:07:40 +0000juniper.friedman521026 at http://www.technologyreview.com